URU Ages Beyond Myst Prima Official eGuide - All Things Uru

A thick, impenetrable fog surrounded the entire island. Itwas impossible to tell how high up I was or if there wasanything else on the horizon other than miles and miles of mist.Although the sky was light, I couldn't see a sun (if, in fact,that's what illuminated the sky in this Age). I wassimultaneously thrilled to experience my first link to anotherAge and uneasy to have landed in such a hostile environment.Suddenly, it dawned on me that I had no way to link back to theCleft, to Earth! The Linking Book that I picked up in the cavern of theCleft transported me to Relto, but I saw no Linking Book on Relto thatwould bring me back. In a panic, I opened the Linking Book on my hipand slapped my hand against the linking panel.I linked and reappeared inside the hut on Relto, which struck me asodd. I remembered from my reading that one of the fundamental D'nilinking rules was that one could never link from one location in an Age toanother location in the same Age. It wasn't just forbidden, it wasconsidered impossible by every D'ni writer that I ’d read about. And yet,here I was, still on Relto. How was that possible?It was then that I realized another apparentimpossibility in Yeesha's Linking Book. When I linked toRelto from the Cleft, the Linking Book came with me. Thatshouldn't have happened. Linking Books were supposed tostay in the Age from which one linked, not come throughthe link with the user. As far as I knew, this also wascompletely unheard of.-38-